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1. Letter from Baker, James Roy d'Arcy

   any presents for the rest of the family for quite some time as I have so little money to work with ... My arm is still very sore from the operation the other day. The doctor hasn't removed the ... bandages yet so I have no way of knowing in what condition my arm is even in. But it is very sore at the ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:49pm

2. Letter from Robinson, Robert S.

   Cape Town a short time during which we had the honor to be chosen to escort a large number of Boer ... a very clean and pretty city of one hundred thousand population. English money and language is used ... those without papers or passes which allowed them to go home to their family or occupation. I will give ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Jan 5 2024 - 8:26am

3. Letter from Mayse, Amos William (Will)

   & we may sail the same day- the voyage will take about 11 days at the outside, & there allowing ... be glad to get on the last stage of my long journey, for it had been a long- weary & anxious time ... line. It is very hard for men to get home now, in fact no more men are to be sent home on furlongh or ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 10:59am

4. Letter from Gullen, William Roy

   you are the very best person I ever had or made friends with I do not care for the kind who are always ... saying little nothings, when we are allowed to be together again will apreceate your friendship and ... the Canadian Winters are very bad on people who are not out a great deal, I should have been more ...

   Editor - Sep 2 2024 - 3:44pm

5. Letter from Campbell, William Nelson

   civilized world is doing to allow this war no not war human murder. Next time Misses Kirbys asks you to read ... coming up very often, I think if your mother is wise she will have it done you say I aught to be back by ... girls are very nice so are the French, but there is one in Canada that beats them all to the Dickins. ...

   Editor - Oct 15 2021 - 2:25pm

6. Letter from Latham, Frank Wilfred

   why the baby should sleep most of the time. Films are very scarce here but I‘ll look around and see ... Gary’s birth certificate we should be able to get some allowance for him? I suppose Hap and Anne are ... going strong I’d like to see them. I guess Dennis does have a hard time of it and I suppose he cant see ...

   Editor - Nov 3 2021 - 10:59am

7. Letter from Beck, John Jackson

   October 29 1917 Maresfield Park My dear Gertrude, A glorious day- but mighty cold- very much so ... morning- the scene was a very pretty one- a heavy white frost everywhere on grass- trees roofs & ... Quarter Master's store for some equipment, to the Hut to sew two buttons on- but still having time ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 2:35am

8. Letter from Duff, Cecil and Louis

   thought they would allow him a longer time for convalescence but I guess they need the men so badly that ... he had to go. They did not operate but if they had it would have taken a long time for the wound to ... allowed to remain in England awhile, was a great shock. I phoned the news to Florence at Jacksons tonight ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 2:19am

9. Letter from Stares, William James

   in Hospital I could hardly sleep, very uncomfortable it seemed between sheets, but I soon got to use ... allowing singing to go on after “Lights out” still I suppose like us Boys here, we break out occasionally. ... paddling through the slime.- Knee deep, I have been through it.- The Canadians have had a hard time just ...

   Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:08pm

10. Letter from Trotter, Bernard Freeman

    letters, I am sorry you were misled by the caption of the review picture. I certainly meant at the time to ... not issued to us; but they won't. Logically they should pay a subsistence allowance for us here; ... Canadian allowance. As Chesterton would say-"the blackness of great darkness." The week has been ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:17pm